Cat Magazines

I currently subscribe to Cat Fancy and was looking at Modern Cat. Any ideas? Do you subscribe to a cat magazine??? I have found Cat Fancy to be getting filled with more and more ads! Modern Cat is only 4 times a year though........

No. I really can't afford to get any more magazines and I've found most of them to be full of ads anymore. (Cat Fancy is really bad with the ads, IMO)

Cat Fancy really changed over the years-I got a free subscription and was sorta happy when it ran out as felt it was not for me anymore.  With internet I do not find a need to get any mags as I can get info I want online.

I subscribed to Cat Fancy years back but got sick of seeing nothing but advertisements. After I stopped subscribing they kept sending me all kinds of renewal "incentives" but I never renewed.

That's why I stopped all mag subscriptions.. nothing but ads. This is how the companies make money, through those ads.

I also hated how "Cooking Light" had a section for beauty products. It's a cooking magazine, not beauty!

I recently resubscribed to Cat Fancy after at least 15 years without it.   It's enjoyable but I don't think I'll resubscribe once it the year is over.  I like getting magazines even though I'm totally internet addicted but I like them to be worthwhile and I agree, this is too filled with ads to make it worthwhile.

I got a gift sub to cat fancy it is full of ads!!! I wont be renewing

The reason behind the ads is because subscriptions are down due to internet and other means of access to information. The company/magazine stays in business by selling more commercial advertisements.

That being said, I don't subscribe to any magazines at the moment. I was subscribing to a Canadian magazine called Chatelaine but didn't renew after it expired. I used to subscribe to it many years ago and decided to try it again. It wasn't the same magazine that I remember.  The newer version is filled with nothing but 14 year old models trying to sell anti-aging cream to 50 year olds!  They do have some good recipes, but not worth my time wading through the rest to find them.

I also subscribed to People Magazine once!  I forget how long of a subscription I bought, but I didn't realize it was a weekly magazine!!!!! OMG!!! I was ready to rip my hair out when this magazine kept showing up in my mailbox week after week after week!  LOL  I stopped reading it and just starting leaving it in the kitchen at work for others to read.

I used to work in the magazine publishing industry. Magazines need to be at least 50% ads or they are not financially viable unless you pay a lot more for your subscription. The 50% figure was before the internet, so now it may be even more since there's less subscribers.

Natalie_ca said:

 
That being said, I don't subscribe to any magazines at the moment. I was subscribing to a Canadian magazine called Chatelaine but didn't renew after it expired. I used to subscribe to it many years ago and decided to try it again. It wasn't the same magazine that I remember.  The newer version is filled with nothing but 14 year old models trying to sell anti-aging cream to 50 year olds!  They do have some good recipes, but not worth my time wading through the rest to find them.

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Taste of Home used to be an ad-free cooking magazine, published by Reiman Publications. It was a very nice magazine and I was a very long-time subscriber. Then they said that they would put "a few" ads in the magazine and the ads would have some relationship to cooking. Well, that was how it started. Then Readers Digest took them over and it went all downhill from there. Every other page is an ad. There are ads for mattresses, for medicines, for everything. It was during that time, too, that the recipes changed and the magazine began to cater to the 30-minute, 5-ingredient kind of cooking that uses mostly cans and boxes. I cancelled my subscription and haven't looked back. It really isn't a magazine for people who like to cook (although there are a few recipes in the magazine for people like me); it's more for those who need to get the job done and fast and don't really care about anything else.

For a good cooking magazine, both Cook's Country and Cook's Illustrated are still ad-free. I get them both, but I really like Cook's Country.